You will be able to pre-order clothes folding robots starting in 5 days and 5 hours from foldimate.com.

The movies were right: Gremlins are real. Or at least they will be if DARPA -- the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- has anything to say about it. As we learned this week from our friends at the Navy Times , DARPA is moving ahead on

Material and engineering researchers at East China's Zhejiang University unveiled a "super" aluminum-graphene battery that can be fully charged in 5 seconds and then last for two hours.

What have you been up to lately, Atlas?

Boeing revealed its MQ-25 unmanned refueling drone.

In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying

The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has shattered another world record with the testing of a 32-tesla magnet -- 33 percent stronger than what had previously been the world's strongest superconducting

Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene -- each one-atom thick -- could be made to transform into a diamond-like material upon impact at room tem

Behold The Future...6 microrobots move a car 18,000 times their weight. We don't want to alarm you, but researchers appear to have come a step closer to helping robots one day take over the world.

DARPA that there have been three waves of AI.

New research at the University of Waterloo in Canada may triple the range of current batteries. A battery breakthrough may be on the horizon if Canadian research pans out.

The mining company Rio Tinto has been running robotic trucks for over ten years. Seventy-six of their 400 mining trucks are robotic.

How can there be any doubt when Facebook and Google are well on their way?

The United States faces a looming crisis over its deteriorating water infrastructure, and fixing it will be a monumental and expensive task.

Dr. Dario Gil is a leading technologist and senior executive at IBM. As Vice President of Science and Solutions of IBM Research, Dr. Gil directs a global organization of some 1,500 researchers across 11 laboratories.

We've featured a fair number of underwater drones over the past few years, and they're pretty much all remotely-controlled by their shore-based users.

Big Pharma is working overtime to restrict consumer access to cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive component of cannabis sativa (marijuana) that's been shown to help relieve pain, muscle spasms, and other ailments. Using the U.S. Food and Drug

There are many established and startup companies developing deep learning chips.

As if graphene wasn't versatile enough already, researchers at the University of Arkansas have now found a way for the two-dimensional material to be used as a source of clean and potentially unlimited energy.

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Toyota has unveiled an assistive robot test bed that builds on previous work undertaken by its Partner Robot wing, which examined specific robot limb joints and pre-programmed movements ??" including robots that played musical instruments.

While self-driving cars are regularly in the news, we haven't heard as much noise on the autonomous shipping front, which could have equally far-reaching ramifications.

A fleet of self-driving Volvo vehicles operated by Uber Technologies Inc. could be ready for the road as early as 2019, marking the ride-hailing firm's biggest push yet to roll out autonomous cars.

Uber will buy 24,000 autonymous Volvo cars in 2019-2021. Nearly every driving job will vanish, faster than most think.

During Tesla's semi truck unveiling they presented some pretty impressive economic numbers. I must admit that I was a bit overwhelmed and could not get the numbers to add up. Once understood the number DO make sense. Here's why.

Meet SpotMini, now in more kid-friendly yellow

Ocado's warehouse technology would probably make Jeff Bezos green with envy.

Waymo vans loaded with laser LiDAR, radar, cameras, computers, AI and no human safety drivers will pick up Arizonans registered in its "Early Riders" program within a few months. Commercial, paid-ride service starts in 2018.

In a step towards creating a new class of electronics that look and feel like soft, natural organisms, mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a fluidic transistor out of a metal alloy of indium and gallium that is liquid at

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Antimatter is the most energy dense material in the universe. Positron dynamics core innovations is the ability to generate intense beams of cold positrons using an array of moderators.

The common assumption is that Robin Hood was a redistributionist. This is false

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The EU's Anti-Brussels Dominos Keep Falling: AfD in Germany, Freedom Party in Austria, Babiš in the Czech Republic

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Libertarian Advisor Predicts JFK Release

THE AMERICAN MILITARY is working to add a lot of tools to its arsenal. Drones. Lasers. Laser-shooting drones. Drone-killing lasers. But the researchers devising the future of warfare are doing some subtraction too. One thing you won't see on the ba

Stanford Says Its Sodium-Based Battery Beat Lithium On Most All Fronts, 80% Cost Reduction Possible

A colossal battle two years in the making is about to be joined, with the USA vs Japan giant robot duel to take place on Tuesday, Pacific Time.

All we've seen of the Tesla Semi so far is a couple of tweets from Elon Musk and a portentous picture of a couple of scowling headlights, and quick peak/spyshot at something on a flat bed in the wild that inspired some pretty decent renders.

Truly driverless vehicles are about to hit the streets of California.

The world's food chain is headed toward total automation by robotics and AI, potentially putting tens of millions of farm workers out of employment. Technocrats are planning on Universal Basic Income to mollify the unemployables from rebelling. ?

Knows when it's running out of battery and heads to the charging station on its own.

A new technology is here that has the potential to reshape lithium production like fracking reshaped oil.?

As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing their limits, and it's unlikely we'll be able to squeeze much more juice out of them.

Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he hopes to finance his plans to colonize Mars by making SpaceX's entire fleet of vehicles -- the Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, and the Dragon spacecraft -- obsolete.

Continuous Electrode Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion

Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have discovered how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects by using laser light.

British vacuum cleaner maker Dyson announced Tuesday that it is working on a "premium" electric car that will go on sale in 2020. They expect to spend at least $2.7 billion (£2 billion) on the car and battery technology.

The Plimp uses a blimp-like body to prevent hard crashes and a plane-like body to maneuver through the sky.